IMPORTANCE OF THE PLOUGHMAN.
'WftlJl&llui, July 24. According tp Wilson, the most important Zealand today, from an agtWbuiSSl point of view, is the ploughman, "j(hid 'ln_ support- of an appeal before the Military Service Board at Marten, Sir James Wilson contended that no ploughman should be allowed to leave the Dominion just now. The stores, he said, were full of mutton, and in view of„the shipping difficulties there now seemed every possibility that lambs would have to 'be carried over next winter. Feed, therefore, would be absolute ly necessary, and the counijy could not afford to aliow its ploughmen to go away, if production was to be kept up. To keep the larmbs in the paddocks instead of the freezing chgjnibers was going to ibe a very serious tax upon the resources of the producers, as feed would ha.ve to Ibe grown to meet the requirements. At present ploughing work was very badly affected by iihe weather, and unless a more favorable change oame- soon the iscrMU>: u
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1918, Page 5
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168IMPORTANCE OF THE PLOUGHMAN. Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1918, Page 5
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